79 Recently Signed NBA Players Can Now Be Traded
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December 15 marks the first day 79 players who signed new free-agent deals during the 2025 offseason are officially eligible to be traded.
The group features high-profile names such as Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard—who is expected to stay put—as well as Clippers point guard Chris Paul, who has been away from the team but remains on the roster. Other notable players gaining trade eligibility today include Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Myles Turner, Julius Randle and Fred VanVleet.
Fourteen of the newly eligible players, among them Lillard, Harden and VanVleet, hold the right to veto any deal this season. The Rockets, Clippers and Bucks each have multiple players with that protection.
Six players on today’s list are still on non-guaranteed contracts, including two members of the Spurs. If any of those players are traded before the league-wide guarantee date of January 10, only the non-guaranteed portion of their salary will count for matching purposes for the team sending them out; the acquiring club must still account for the full cap hit.
Several recently signed players around the league remain ineligible to be moved. Many will clear their trade restrictions on January 15, while others have unique eligibility dates.
Teams traditionally wait until closer to the February 5 trade deadline to make significant moves, though two trades were completed on December 15 last season. Any player dealt on or before December 16 can be re-aggregated in another transaction prior to the deadline—a maneuver the Warriors executed last year when they acquired Dennis Schröder from Brooklyn on December 15 and later sent him to Detroit in a five-team Jimmy Butler swap.
Source: Hoops Rumors
